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fairly in order, we hurried away to our peaks, to secure 

 some photographs while the light was favourable. This 

 time we were able to achieve our object. " Scott's 

 Nunataks,"as they were afterwards named — after Captain 

 Scott, who first saw them — were now for the first time 

 recorded by the camera. Before we left the summit the 

 Norwegian flag was planted there, a snow beacon erected, 

 and a report of our visit deposited in it. The weather 

 would not keep clear; before we were back at the camp 

 there was a thick fog, and once more we had to thank 

 the tracks of our ski for showing us the way. During 

 the time we had been involuntarily detained at this 

 spot, our store of provisions had decreased alarmingly; 

 there was only a bare week's supply left, and in less than 

 a week we should hardly be able to make home; 

 probably it would take more than a week, but in that 

 case we had the depot at our Bay of Seals to fall back 

 upon. In the immediate neighbourhood of our present 

 position we could not reckon on being able to replenish 

 our supj)ly in the continued unfavourable state of the 

 weather. We therefore made up our minds on the 

 morning of December 9 to break off the journey and 

 turn our faces homeward. For three days more we had 

 to struggle with high wind and thick snow, but as things 

 now were, we had no choice but to keep going, and by 

 the evening of the 11th we had dragged ourselves fifty 

 geographical miles to the west. The weather cleared 

 during the night, and at last, on December 12, we had 



